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Pelosi blames GOP, Bush for unemployment

Republicans are “fighting against the economic recovery every step of the way,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday after worse-than-expected job numbers were released.

Pelosi also took a shot at former President George W. Bush, saying the 71,000 private-sector jobs added to the economy in July is a “sharp turnaround from the 700,000 jobs per month lost under President Bush.”

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Nowhere in the statement, though, does Pelosi characterize what exactly she makes of the jobless numbers.
“Today’s report shows our teachers, police officers, firefighters, and nurses are still feeling the worst of the Bush recession — while Republican leaders demean them as ‘special interests’ and try to block legislation that will grow our economy,” Pelosi said. “Democrats will return next week to save or create hundreds of thousands of jobs for our teachers, nurses, firefighters and police officers — and close loopholes that allow corporations to ship American jobs overseas.? This is critical as over the last three months, state and local governments have cut more than 46,000 jobs in education.”

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) called the numbers “encouraging.”

“That fact shows that our economy is making progress. Nevertheless, total employment fell this month, due largely to the end of temporary census jobs. As long as millions of Americans remain out of work, we clearly have more work to do,” Hoyer said in a statement.

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Nancy, Nancy, Nancy. Bush has been gone for a year and a half. The Democrats have been in controlof Congress for three and a half years, right? You all promised us unemployment would not go past 8% if we passed "your" stimulus bill. Welllllllll. Where are we now? In the double digits all over the place. How many times will we have to pass an extension for unemployment? How will we pay for it? Come on Nancy - drain the swamp - you first.

Pelosi was right. I remember the last state of the union message and Bush was up there saying things had turned around. Hey wait a minute! That was Obama up there. Thats right this is 2010 not 2008. How could it be Bush's fault. Now Bush was NOT a good president. He was necessary in the dark days after 9/11 but he all in all was not a very good president. Hopefully Obama will not be re-elected. I would vote for Hillary over the current occupant. But Pelosi is way over the top with the "it's Bush's fault" nonsense.

So it appears the Republican politicians' scare tactics are working, people with money aren't spending, and businesses who could hire won't. Now the fireworks; somehow the last 30 years should be forgotten and this is all Obama's fault, he's managed to ruin our economy in 19 months. Everything was perfect before he came along! Well.... there are some of us who have more than a 19 month memory. I bought some "quick grip" bar clamps 10 years ago, and they have a very strange marking on them; "MADE IN U.S.A." my new ones don't have that marking and they suck. In a nutshell thats why things are so bad for us right now, until we start building things by ourselves for ourselves, times will continue to be tough. Supply side economics don't work, the poor have gotten poorer and the rich have gotten geometrically richer by factors unimaginable a decade ago. And somehow we're supposed to believe if we just go back to same policies things will get better? We can't all work for the Gov't, but yet so many people think it's O.K. to have a huge military and super secret spy spy towers, did anybody read the Washington Post series on Top Secret America? It was astonishing. We as a nation have spent untold (because it's a secret) hundreds of billions on this stuff since 9/11 but we've still got the same basic problems!! But just keep spending on that stuff, cause it makes us feel safer. Why? Because the Republican fear machine says so.

I know Pelosi's stupid, but she should really compare the unemployment numbers from before she took over Congress with the numbers since. The Bush tax cuts worked. Pelosi's leadership drove the economy into the ditch. Obama's disasterous economic policies greatly accelerated the downward spiral in unemployment and the huge increase in goverment spending and debt. Politico may be gullible enough to fall for Pelosi's spin but outside the MSM and the beltway, it's clear as glass who destroyed the economy. It wasn't Bush.

So I assume when the economy turns around it will be fair and reasonable to credit George Bush. Clearly Obama and the Democrats are not currently leading the country. So my hope is George Bush will pull us out of this current bad economy. What is that Obama guy doing sitting in the White House?

“Democrats will return next week to save or create hundreds of thousands of jobs for our teachers, nurses, firefighters and police officers — and close loopholes that allow corporations to ship American jobs overseas.? This is critical as over the last three months, state and local governments have cut more than 46,000 jobs in education.”

Well, Nancy, are you saving? Creating? Or simply "re-creating" those already cut?

The Economy is liquid in that it takes the shape of its container. The new legislation passed by Nancy and her Party require loads of new regulations which are in the process of being written and phased into implementation. Until the economy knows the details (shape) of the drag on Commerce; why should fools rush in? Fact: Stimulus spending is a postponement of future pain.

9.5% after 800+ BILLION Dollars. I say return what we did and ask for our money back. Oh by the way, Nancy, according to Gallup:

GOP Resumes Favorable Standing on Generic BallotDemocratic enthusiasm for voting in midterms is the lowest seen this yearby Lydia SaadPRINCETON, NJ -- Registered voters favor Republicans by 48% and Democrats by 43% in Gallup's generic congressional ballot for the week of July 26 through Aug. 1. This follows two weeks when the numbers were nearly reversed.

This is also a biased article. No context has been given. The gig is up, it's time to start reporting the facts. Here, I will write the proper intro to this article....

" Republicans are “fighting against the economic recovery every step of the way,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (who has controlled the house of representatives since 2006) said Friday after worse-than-expected job numbers were released.

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A democrat of the brand we are seeing these days couldn't create a job if given a trillion dollars!!! LOL oh wait, we did give them....we'll the took 1 trillion to do that to hold unemployment below 8.5%. Right?

I don't know if these brand of republicans are worth a crap, but I can tell you what has been re-enforced about democrats as of late. They have zero common sense economically. We've been running hope and change policies in CA for almost 15 years, look where we are. We had 2 or 3 20% budget deficits BEFORE the 2008 recession.